2.5 Analysis
Demographic data were analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics-Version
24 and summarized as means and standard deviations for continuous data
and frequencies for categorical data. Interviews were audiotaped and
transcribed verbatim. All transcripts were verified against the
audio-recordings by the first author and imported into a qualitative
analysis software program NVivo 12 .
Thematic content analysis was used to analyze the information gathered
during semi-structured interviews 15. The six phases
of thematic content analysis were conducted independently by two members
(HP and AO) of the research team to generate the main themes in
participants’ responses 15. Disagreements in
identification of themes were handled through consensus of the two
analysts (HP and AO). As the main themes that emerged from each
participant group overlapped across the entire sample and no theme was
solely identified by only one participant group, the resulting themes
were collapsed across all participants.